The History Book Club Selection
The History Book Club offers a vast selection of history books spanning thousands of years and many wars. Please see the list of links for bestsellers, top authors, and categories on the right side of this page.
Elizabeth Martin
The Desk Encyclopedia of World History |
Oxford University Press Inc. / November, 2006 / Ready to Ship
Member Edition: $12.99
Publisher Edition: $17.95
Yours For: $1.00
More than 4,000 illuminating, concise entries that take you from the Stone Age into the 21st century.
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Paul Cartledge
Thermopylae |
Overlook Press / October, 2006 /Ready to Ship
Member Edition: $20.99
Publisher Edition: $30.00
Yours For: $1.00
Historians use the name “Persian Wars” to describe the conflict in the early fifth century B. C. that pitted the massive forces of the Persian empire, the world’s strongest power at the time, against a temporary alliance of much weaker Greek city-states. |
Erik Larson
Thunderstruck |
Crown Publishers Inc./Random House
/ August, 2007 / Ready to Ship
Member Edition: $16.99
Publisher Edition: $25.95
Yours For: $1.00
The author of The Devil in the White City tells the amazing interwoven stories of two men—Dr. Hawley Crippen and famed wireless inventor Guglielmo Marconi—whose stories converge during the greatest criminal chase of the early 20th century. |
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